Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language

By Joan Bybee. 2006

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Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Diachronic Word Embeddings Reveal Statistical Laws of Semantic Change (2016, background): “…key role in other linguistic changes, associated sometimes with faster change—sound changes like lenition occur in more frequent words—and sometimes with slower change—high frequency words are more resistant to morphological regularization (Bybee, 2007; Pagel et al., 2007; Lieberman et al., 2007).”
A constructional account of genre-based argument omissions (2010, methodology): “In this respect, construction-based syntax intersects with exemplar-based analysis à la Bybee (2001, 2007).”
Effects of input properties, vocabulary size, and L1 on the development of third person singular –s in child L2 English (2012, neutral): “Previous studies have investigated variation between the allomorphs of plural –s and past tense –ed (Berko, 1958; Köpcke, 1998; Bybee, 2007), but no study has looked at developmental variation between 3SG /z/, /s/, and /Iz/.”
Consequences of the Now-or-Never bottleneck for signed versus spoken languages (2015, background): “…Chang et al. 1999; Elman 1990; MacDonald & Christiansen 2002),15 exemplarbased (e.g., Bod 2009), and other usage-based (e.g., Arnon & Snider 2010; Bybee 2006) accounts of language acquisition tie learning and processing together – and assume that language is acquired piecemeal, in the absence of…”
Testing the role of phonetic knowledge in Mandarin tone sandhi* (2010, background): “One possible line of investigation is to examine in a language with phonological patterns that differ in the degree of phonetic motivation whether the patterns with stronger phonetic motivations are acquired more quickly and with greater accuracy in language acquisition.”
Language as shaped by the brain. (2008, background): “John Benjamins. [CB] (2006) Working backwards from modern language to proto-grammar.”
Causal connectives in discourse processing: How differences in subjectivity are reflected in eye movements (2013, background): “The more frequent a token or grammatical construction is, the stronger its cognitive representation, a process also referred to as entrenchment (Bybee, 2007).”
FREQUENCY OF INPUT AND L2 COLLOCATIONAL PROCESSING (2013, methodology): “In these usage-based models (e.g., Bybee, 2007 ; Bybee & Hopper, 2001 ; Goldberg, 2006 ; Langacker, 1987 , 1988 ; MacWhinney, 2000 ; and Tomasello, 2000 , 2003 ), language learning is viewed as a predominantly inductive and experience-driven process, and the frequency with which structures occur in…”
Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper (2009, background): “The latter include speed of access related to token frequency and resistance to regularization of high-frequency forms (Bybee, 1995, 2001, 2007); it also includes the role of probability in syntactic and lexical processing (Ellis, 2002; Jurafsky, 2003; MacDonald & Christiansen, 2002) and the strong…”
Production and perception of a sound change in progress: Tone merging in Hong Kong Cantonese (2013, background): “Hooper (1976) and Bybee (2007) distinguished two types of word frequency effects on sound change.”